al vente #1

Lately the city's been getting to me. Maybe it's the heat. So I feel like I have to vent -- This is the inaugural (and possibly exaugural) item in my list of NYC peeves. It's kind of like the Voice's Best of NYC -- but the opposite. Let's see how long this lasts:

1) pre-emptive exiters: this is those folks who, as the subway is coming into a station, start to make their way toward the doors. While this is generally a harmless act, there are those times when the train is crowded and you happen to be in the way of one such P.E.E. who then forces you to let go of your pole to let them through. This seems to happen to me only when we reach the station at which I too am getting off, making their pre-emption that much more noxious and unnecessary.

I was expressing this to a friend (I too won't reveal my source) and she totally agreed, adding, "...and it's one of the times [when the train is slowing down/stopping] when you really NEED to hold on." Well said.